20 December

East European Performing Arts Platform (EEPAP), together with Art Stations Foundation by Grazyna Kulczyk, the Institute of Music and Dance and the Zbigniew Raszewski Theatre Institute, have published a collection of essays by prominent artists and researchers of choreography entitled ...Read more »

photo: Ola Osowicz, Wrocław 7.12.2016 via In Between Festivals
Peter Player is one of the most important people who have contributed to the development of dance in Poland. As a dancer, choreographer and, primarily, a teacher, he has influenced many young artists and their perceptions of dance....Read more »

6 February

Polish Dance Avant-Garde Artists. Stories and Reconstructions
edited by Joanna Szymajda
A book created as part of the Choreographic Territories - New Paths for the Avant-Garde project and published by the Institute of Music and Dance and the Adam Mickiewicz Institute.
2017 was the year of the...Read more »

20 September

Demonstration at the Powszechny Theatre in Warsaw against The Curse, directed by Oliver Frljić, 19 May 2017. Photo credit: Marta Keil.
Polish Theatre Journal (PTJ) is an online English-language research journal examining contemporary Polish theatre and performance, which is published twice a...Read more »

28 June

photo: Studium Muzyka by Wojtek Affek via Centrum w Ruchu
Festival as public art institution
by Marta Keil
Festivals are today without doubt some of the most important institutions in the performing arts field. Switching from a function of presenting to producing, they...Read more »

14 June

photo: "Physical_0327-w2500-h2500" (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) by Central Sussex College
Economy/Institution/Democracy
by Marta Keil
Let us consider that the evolution of institutional criticism has been conducted in relation to actual political and economic situations, and thus...Read more »

24 May

photo: Monika Stolarska - "Stateswomen, Sluts of Revolution, or the Learned Ladies" via Polish Theatre in Bydgoszcz
Don’t you have other problems to worry about?
by Marta Keil
“Auto-theatre” that I have described recently and that remains at the core of new political theatre (including the...Read more »

26 April

photo: Magda Szpecht's “Schubert" via teatr.walbrzych.pl
Giving the leading role to the body
by Izabela Szymańska
Stage movement has managed to secure its place in Polish theatres. The work of a dancer or a choreographer helps the director and artists find a character’s typical movement,...Read more »

5 April

photo: Kantor Downtown at the Theatre Confrontations Festival 2016
Autotheatre in Poland as a form of Institutional Critique
by Marta Keil
During the last two seasons we have been observing a distinctive trend of political theatre that stands up for the subjectivity of artists, enquires about...Read more »

1 March

Photo: Portrait of Loïe Fuller by Frederick Glasier, 1902.
Movement at the Museum
by Izabela Szymańska
Is a museum hall a suitable scene for dance? A number of exhibitions organized during the last couple of years prove that this type of union can be beneficial.
The latest exhibition...Read more »

4 January

"Dance" (CC BY-ND 2.0) by Bex Wade
For the New Year
by Izabela Szymańska
The end of the year is an excellent opportunity for all kinds of summaries and predictions for the future. What did this year bring into dance? What will the next year be like? And, most importantly, what should we do to...Read more »

4 November

Platform: East European Performing Arts Companion - a publication by EEPAP
The idea for Platform: An East European Performing Arts Companion
arose over years of working with critics, historians and theorists of
theatre from the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, who have
been...Read more »

3 November

IDENTITY.MOVE! was conceived in the framework of the Culture programme of the European Union by the Goethe-Institut Warsaw, the Centre for Culture in Lublin, the State School of Dance in Athens and a consortium of Prague-based dance and performance institutions.
IDENTITY.MOVE! focused on dancers...Read more »

26 July

Reframing the institution of public theatre
“The institution of the theatre constitutes a form of public/shared space.
The public theatre refers to the idea(l)s of citizenship and community; it shapes the rules of democratic social engagement, raises cultural consciousness and amplifies the...Read more »

30 December

The following report is the result of the first year of EEPAP’s operation. Its aim was to gather information about the state of theatre and dance in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. Our goal is not to present you with ready theses, for it is much too early for that. This publication is...Read more »